Who let him join the Sword Sect!

Chapter 420 Ah Li said, let's add another chapter.
Zhang Ze compared the handprint through the barrier and found that it was the left hand.

Except for the fact that all five fingers are intact, the size is exactly the same as someone's right hand that is missing a finger.

The owner of the handprint is obvious.

Xiao Jing, who was forced into prostitution.

To die without a complete corpse is a curse for others, but for Xiao Jing, that bastard, it is indeed a fact.

He was like a cockroach that had burst open, disgusting everyone with his rotten flesh.

Although Zhang Ze has now turned into stone, his head is still buzzing.

The whole thing became eerie because of the appearance of this black handprint.

He suddenly realized that it was very likely that the way to leave the Four Continents was taught to those fireflies by Emperor Xiao Jing's left hand.

Moreover, this method is very likely fake.

What's even more terrifying is that the strength of each of this guy's limbs is inconsistent, with some being weak and others strong.

Compared to the right hand, eyeball, and hairy leg that have already been captured, this left hand is clearly the strongest.

He was even able to imprison his senior brother Shi Xiu, who was undergoing tribulation, here all by himself.

But what exactly is he trying to do after all this trouble?
"Could it be... Changzhou!"

Zhang Ze suddenly realized that sacrificing Changzhou and turning the entire city into wasteland was likely his true purpose.

As for whether those fireflies can leave the Four Continents and return to their homeland, Xiao Jing, that bastard, wouldn't care at all.

How could someone who is extremely selfish care about what others think?

Zhang Ze, who was in stealth mode, took a step back, preparing to leave and meet up with A Li first.

He wasn't sure if the left hand had left, and Shi Xiu's condition was also somewhat strange, so he didn't dare to wake him up rashly.

God knows what will happen.

He himself wasn't afraid. With his current physique, he wouldn't even flinch if Senior Brother Shi beat him for a hundred years.

But Ah Li, those cultivators who were captured, and the big-headed cabbages who were being used, couldn't withstand more than a few blows.

To be on the safe side, it's best to retreat first.

Just as Zhang Zegang stepped away, a shadow suddenly emerged from the shadows in the corner of the hall.

Zhang Ze's usually invincible black bodysuit seemed to have lost its effectiveness at this moment.

The shadow silently transformed into the shape of a hand, pointing directly at Zhang Ze's back.

Eastern Qi Royal Family Immortal Arts and Emperor Wu's Laws
The order is issued, and those who defy it will perish.

……

Qianji Pavilion.

The fishing pond is located on the back hill.

The junior sister was squatting on the ground, turning over stones, crying out, "Daddy, Daddy, where are you...?"

Xiangxiang, who had just returned from a trip to Jingzhou, stared at her junior sister's retreating figure with her hands tucked in her sleeves, unsure whether she was looking for her father or an earthworm.

"Lu... I mean, Xiaoqin, how are you feeling right now?" Xiangxiang asked softly.

Chen Qin went out to find Lao Deng and took the opportunity to visit Tianzong to retrieve her life lamp. Xiangxiang originally thought that there would be some changes in her, but now it seems that... she is no different from before.

"What's up?" Chen Qin hooked an earthworm onto the fishhook.

Xiangxiang blinked, "That light..."

"Ding? Isn't this what we're looking for?" The junior sister raised her fishing rod and cast a standard cast, sending the bait into the water. "My mom said my dad could be anywhere, maybe even right here in this water, secretly watching me as a fish."

“I’m not talking about that… I’m talking about that life lamp… Don’t you feel anything, about memories…” Xiangxiang drifted over and sat down next to Chen Qin, carefully choosing her words.

"No," the junior sister shook her head.

Xiangxiang, "Huh?"

"There is only one power in the lamp, nothing else. As for that power... it is here now."

The junior sister snapped her fingers, and a spark of spiritual fire ignited at her fingertips. At the same time, her aura began to rise, and in the blink of an eye, she reached the peak of the Nascent Soul stage.

When she arrived at the Heavenly Sect and received the life lamp, it transformed into a ball of spiritual fire and entered her body.

There are no memories or messages in the spiritual fire, only the purest power, a source of power accumulated bit by bit from the nurturing of the Heavenly Sect from that time to the present.

Simply put, this can be seen as the principal and interest she deposited in the Heavenly Sect back then.

If you absorb it all, reaching the Nascent Soul stage in one step will be a breeze.

Of course, this is on the premise that one's state of mind and Daoist heart are in sync; otherwise, falling into demonic possession is the least of one's worries.

That's why Chen Qin was sent back home by her mother.

Mo Jingchun told her to go home and cultivate diligently, solidify her foundation, and prepare for breaking through to the Nascent Soul stage. He added that she wouldn't be needed to help Lao Deng.

It was definitely not because she was too noisy that I chased her back.

The junior sister showed off to Xiangxiang for a bit, then imitated Zhang Ze and blew a cool breath into the spirit fire.

However, the lights went out and the person collapsed.

The junior sister collapsed with a thud.

Xiangxiang, "Huh?"

Just as Xiangxiang was about to call the Fuji Emergency Hotline to call for help, her junior sister sat up on her own again.

"It's alright, no need to call anyone. I forgot that before I finished refining this spiritual fire, I would faint if it were extinguished even slightly." Xiangxiang asked, "Is it really alright...?"

Junior sister, "It's really nothing, it's just like how I laugh when I'm tickled, or I shake when my earlobe is touched. It's a subconscious reaction, oh, sorry... I didn't mean to..."

The junior sister was speaking when she suddenly remembered that Xiangxiang no longer had a physical body. Although her words were unintentional, they had a hint of boasting.

"It's alright." Xiangxiang smiled gently. "By the way, when Sect Master Lu handed the lamp to you, didn't he say anything?"

"I told her, and she asked me if I wanted to be the sect leader of the Heavenly Sect. I said no, it's too much trouble. Then she nodded and told me that she didn't know anything either, and that the records from back then had all turned to ashes along with the fall of Dong Qi. Then my mom sent me back home."

After the junior sister finished speaking, she felt the fishing rod vibrate. She reeled in the rod with style, but what she caught was half the engine of a thousand-machine tractor.

God knows who threw it in there.

Junior sister, “…”

Xiangxiang couldn't help but laugh, and when the junior sister saw Xiangxiang laugh, she also burst out laughing.

However, as she was laughing, she suddenly felt a tremor in her heart. The junior sister quickly sat up and took out a jade talisman from her bosom.

These are two treasures she obtained from her elder brother. Besides being able to withstand a full-force attack from a cultivator undergoing tribulation, they are also interconnected; if one is activated, the other will react.

Looking at the blood-red jade talisman in her hand, the junior sister dropped her fishing rod and transformed into a golden light, fleeing southward.

……

Changzhou.

Old Tang stroked his beard and stood with Qin Lang on a hillside.

Centered on Luoyu Mountain, the area within a radius of three hundred miles has returned to stability thanks to the spell cast by Qin Lang and Zhu Luo.

But the land beneath our feet can never return to what it used to be.

Except for the areas traversed by the roots of the Mother Tree of Changzhou, the rest of the land was reduced to scorched earth.

Moreover, he was very familiar with the appearance of this scorched earth.

Before long, a disciple of the Heavenly Sect returned on a cloud, bowed to the two, and spoke.

"The situation is correct; this place has indeed become the wasteland of Middle-earth."

After saying that, he opened his palm and handed several black stones to the two of them.

“Snatched from the jaws of disaster.”

There are quite a few black stones in Changzhou. Besides those picked up by the two red apes and the firefly spirit, there are many black stones scattered throughout Changzhou, but most of them are concentrated near Luoyu Mountain and picked up by spirit beasts.

As the spirit beasts fled, Luoyu Mountain was reduced to wasteland, and these black stones unsurprisingly brought disaster upon them.

The occurrence of the calamity further confirms the fact that this place has become a wasteland in Central Continent.

After gesturing for the Heavenly Sect disciple to go and rest, Qin Lang asked, "What do you think?"

Old Tang scratched his head of white hair, somewhat depressed, "I feel like we've been tricked."

Qin Lang, "What do you mean?"

Old Tang sighed softly, "Regarding the Hundred Demon Sect, or rather Xiao Jing... we may have all been wrong before."

"Whether it's the Qinghe Society seizing the fortune of Dongzhou or sending people to infiltrate the northern border to launch a sneak attack on Baidi City, their objectives seem clear."

"But now that I think about it, there is a common question: what is the connection between these two things and the severed limb hidden in the headquarters of the Hundred Demon Sect, which may have inherited all of Xiao Jing's memories and orchestrated everything?"

"The Qinghe Society's scheme involved abandoning all the demon sect branches they had cultivated for many years, and even tricking and sacrificing all the demon sect elders, expending such a huge effort to connect the ley lines of the Eastern Continent."

"But if it succeeds, the one who ultimately benefits is a naked man and a damaged Emperor's flag, and he has nothing to do with it."

"The same applies to the situation in the North. Even if that hairy-legged fellow and the right hand succeed, they will ultimately be the ones who benefit."

"Those severed limbs are wary of each other and fight amongst themselves, no different from enemies. The idea of ​​cooperation and mutual benefit is simply impossible for them."

"So how could someone who is so selfish and self-serving, capable of destroying his own dynasty for his own purposes, possibly do something that benefits others?"

"It is estimated that from beginning to end, those severed limbs with incomplete memories, as well as the Hundred Demon Sect, were just pawns that could be discarded at will."

“We used to think that the Central Continent had become like this because Xiao Jing’s plan failed, but now it seems that the wasteland may be what he really wanted.”

"Luoyu Mountain is a bomb. The Fireflies were deceived, just like the Hundred Demon Sect and the Right Hand."

After saying that, Old Tang took out his six-fold walnut from his pocket.

"The results from over there are just in, take a look."

After the incident in Changzhou, he realized the key to it and immediately ordered his men to bring out the right hand missing a finger, the naked man, and the broken Emperor's Banner hidden by the Hundred Demons Sect.

After a thorough examination, a Taoist priest discovered some identical dark patterns on their bodies, which resembled magic arrays.

These magic arrays are hidden very well; you can't find them at all unless you specifically look for them.

"I can't figure out the specific principles behind these magic arrays. They all look like they were drawn incorrectly. If they were hidden, they could even be mistaken for ordinary patterns."

"but……"

Old Tang made an explosion gesture.

The Qinghe Gathering: The Eastern Continent's ley lines have been connected by the Hundred Demons Sect using a secret technique. If the naked man were to detonate the Eastern Continent's fortune at its very center immediately after succeeding, perhaps only cultivators above the Tribulation Transcending level would survive...

The Northern Territory Earth Sea Array is centered on White Emperor City. If Zhang Ze hadn't gone there to wander around, allowing Xiao Jing to set it up at his leisure, and the Great Wall had collapsed, then he could have triggered the Earth Sea... The consequences would have been unimaginable...

"The most urgent task is to break the seal on Luoyu Mountain and inform Zhang Ze of the situation. After all, he's inside, who knows..."

However, before Old Tang could finish speaking, he suddenly froze on the spot.

He sensed that the life-saving talisman he had secretly slipped into Zhang Ze's treasure bag had shattered...

(End of this chapter)